Curriculum Vitae
Ho-min Park
| Email: Ho-min.Park@bcm.edu | GitHub: powersimmani | ORCID: 0000-0001-9937-8617 |
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor (2026 – Present)
Texas Children’s Hospital Data Center / Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Leading research on machine learning for pediatric and oncological applications
- Building interpretable, clinically oriented deep learning pipelines in collaboration with clinicians and biomedical researchers
Postdoctoral Researcher (November 2025 – 2026)
Ghent University Global Campus (GUGC), Incheon, South Korea
- Conducted research on biomedical and biological AI under the supervision of Prof. Joris Vankerschaver
- Contributed to multi-institutional collaborations in surgical AI (peritoneal metastasis detection, laparoscopic video analysis) and genomics (data augmentation for genomic deep learning)
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering (2025)
Ghent University, Belgium
- Dissertation: “Advancing Detection through Deep Learning for Industrial, Environmental, and Health Applications”
- Advisors: Prof. Wesley De Neve, Prof. Arnout Van Messem
M.S. in Computer Engineering (2018)
Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea
- Thesis: “Cited count prediction modeling from large citation network”
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering (2016)
Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea
Mentoring & Educational Leadership
AI Vacation School (AIVS) - Founder & Lead Instructor (2021 - 2026)
Ghent University Global Campus
- Founded and led a volunteer-driven intensive AI education program at the Center for Biosystems and Biotech Data Science, supporting over 30 participants across summer and winter cohorts
- Mentored participants who have advanced to top graduate programs including KAIST, Seoul National University, UNIST, Ghent University (Belgium), and Scripps Research Institute (San Diego, CA)
- Co-authored peer-reviewed publications with alumni in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, BMC Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE, SPIE Medical Imaging, and ACM Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Workshop
| Resources: Program Repository | Lecture Slides |
Funded Projects
Depression Diagnosis & Drug Adherence Research (2022 - 2025)
- Developed models for MuSe-Stress and MuSe-Personalization challenges
- Achieved 2nd place (MuSe-Personalisation 2023) and 3rd place (MuSe-Stress 2022)
- Funding: NRF Korea (Grant No.: NRF-2020K1A3A1A68093469), Department of Biotechnology India (Grant No.: DBT/IC-12031(22)-ICD-DBT), Ghent University Global Campus
Environmental Monitoring Project (2020 - 2023)
- Led development of MP-Net for automated microplastics detection
- Funding: Special Research Fund of Ghent University (Grant No.: 01N01718)
Smart Packaging System Development (2018 - 2021)
- Developed and patented two AI-powered measurement systems
- Funding: Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE), Korea (Project No.: 10077285)
Patents
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Park, H., & De Neve, W. (2020). An apparatus and method for measuring the size of high-speed objects and classifying their type on conveyors using light curtain sensors. Korean Intellectual Property Office. Application no.: 10-2020-0045098, Registration no.: 10-2273758.
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Park, H., & De Neve, W. (2018). Apparatus and method for measuring the size of high-speed boxes on conveyors using an RGB-D camera. Korean Intellectual Property Office. Application no.: 10-2018-0148118, Registration no.: 10-2066862.
Awards
| Award | Event | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd Place | MuSe-Personalisation Challenge 2023 | 2023 |
| 3rd Place | MuSe-Stress Challenge 2022 | 2022 |
| Best Presentation | IIAE Conference | 2019 |
Skills
ML & AI
- Architectures: CNN, RNN, LSTM, GRU, Transformer, GAN, Diffusion Models, MLPs
- Techniques: Transfer Learning, Feature Engineering, Model Explainability (SHAP, CAM)
- Tools: PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning, WandB, Python
Languages
- Korean: Native
- English: Professional (TOEIC 860, OPIc IH)